Front of House Assistants, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025

Pay: £12 per hour + Holiday pay*
Hours: full-time/part-time short-term contracts (festival period, including weekends)
Location: Festival Venues around Edinburgh

*Rate increase effective from 1 April 2025 to £12.21 per hour + holiday pay

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About the role:

Edinburgh Science Festival is recruiting for committed, confident Front of House staff to work at one of the biggest Science Festivals in Europe.

These are exciting and busy roles, offering a unique opportunity if you are looking to pursue a career in events or hospitality management.  We’ll be holding exciting events from Monday 31 March – Sunday 20 April 2025 (depending on venue allocated). You will be the face of the Science Festival: assisting members of the public, liaising with box office and dealing with feedback, all to help make our events and venues run smoothly.

About you:

A natural communicator with a cheerful and informed approach. You will already have some front of house or customer service experience. You are able to communicate clearly and confidently with colleagues/ members of the public and have the ability to remain calm under pressure.  You enjoy working as part of a team in a fast-paced busy environment and ideally have some festival experience.  Experience working with children aged 3-15 and their families is desirable.

You will be positioned in venues around the city; either working on our family or adult programme or both.  Full training will be provided in advance.

  • Front of House training: either 28 March or 4 April 2025 (depending on role
  • CAC Schools Programme: Monday 31 March – Wednesday 2 April 2025 (not all staff required, venue dependent)
  • Science Festival Lates: Thursday 3 April 2025 (not all staff required, venue dependent)
  • Festival live: Saturday 5 April – Saturday 20 April 2025

You should have flexible availability and should expect to work throughout the festival run. Shifts may be allocated at more than one venue and will include weekend / evening work.

 

How to apply:

To view the full job description visit https://bit.ly/402fRmO

Click the link below to visit our dedicated careers portal. Please note that only applications submitted via our careers portal will be considered.

 

Please note:  By the start of any employment with Edinburgh Science, you must have the right to work in the UK and documentary evidence to support this.

The closing date for applications is: Sunday 16 February 2025, 11:59PM

Planned interview period: Monday 24 February to Thursday 27 February 2025

 

At Edinburgh Science we welcome applications from all backgrounds because we believe that bringing together people with different perspectives, ideas and experiences always leads to better discussions, decisions and results.

 

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Opportunities

  • Box Office Assistants, Edinburgh Science Festival 2025
    Apply before 11:59pm on Sunday, 16th February 2025

    Pay: £12.21 per hour + holiday pay
    Hours: full-time / short term contracts (festival period, including weekends)
    Location: Festival Venues around Edinburgh

    We are looking for Box Office Assistants to join our Festival Team from 2 April – 20 April 2025!

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Edinburgh Science

Edinburgh Science Foundation is an educational charity that inspires people of all ages and backgrounds around the world to experience the wonder of science and technology. Best known for Edinburgh’s annual Science Festival – the world’s first science festival and still one of the world’s largest – and for our Learning programmes that sees Generation Science tour Scotland and bring science to life in classrooms throughout the year and promotes STEM careers to teens through initiatives such as Careers Hive. An increasing worldwide element shares our content, passion and expertise more widely through an extensive portfolio of international projects.

Our mission is to inspire, encourage and challenge people of all ages and backgrounds to explore, understand and engage with the world around them and to communicate the educational, social and economic benefits of science and technology.

 

Our language is that of live experiences that amaze, inform and entertain in equal measure. We put the customer first whether they are the public, school teacher or pupil. We want to be the best before we are the largest. We thrive on creativity, rely upon professionalism and insist on accuracy. We believe in testing what we do assuming that rarely can an event not be improved. We respect and nurture the partnerships on which we depend for support, people and ideas. We know we are only as good as the people we work with and so value them all, here and abroad.